Referred to: The Public Works and Capital Projects Committee (Chairman Fabiano

and Legislators Greene, Litts, Loughran, and Maloney), and The Ways and Means

Committee (Chairman Gerentine and Legislators Allen, Bartels, Belfiglio, Briggs,

Maio, and Maloney)

Chairman of the Special Committee to Oversee the Ulster County Family Court

Relocation, Herbert Litts, III, offers the following:

WHEREAS, this resolution has been submitted by the County Executive on

behalf of the Department of Purchasing and the Department of Public Works; and

WHEREAS, Resolution No. 319 of October 11, 2001, established a County

policy requiring the Purchasing Director and relevant department heads to explore

the use of a Project Labor Agreement for construction projects over $1,000,000

dollars; and

WHEREAS, Capital Project No. 494 has an estimated budget that exceeds the

$1,000,000 threshold; and

WHEREAS, the Department of Publics Works, through the Palombo Group,

its construction manager for Capital Project No. 494, hired a consultant, Arace &

Company Consulting, LLC, to perform a Due Diligence Study to explore the use of a

Project Labor Agreement; and

WHEREAS, the Due Diligence Study found that the County would save an

estimated $238,000 dollars on the project if a Project Labor Agreement was in place,

and

WHEREAS, the Director of Purchasing and the Interim Commissioner of

Public Works recommend the use of a Project Labor Agreement for Capital Project

No. 494 - Business Resource Center Renovations to Accommodate Family Court;

now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, that the Ulster County Legislature hereby ratifies the

recommendation of the Purchasing Director and the Interim Commissioner of Public

Works of the use of a Project Labor Agreement for Capital Project No. 494,

and move its adoption. 

ADOPTED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:

AYES: 22 NOES: 0

(Absent: Legislator Fabiano)

Passed Committee: Public Works and Capital Projects on September 6, 2017

Passed Committee: Ways and Means on September 13, 2017

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

NONE

STATE OF NEW YORK

 ss:

COUNTY OF ULSTER

I, the undersigned Clerk of the Legislature of the County of Ulster, hereby certify that the foregoing resolution is

the original resolution adopted by the Ulster County Legislature on the 19th Day of September in the year Two Thousand

and Seventeen, and said resolution shall remain on file in the office of said clerk.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the County of Ulster this 20th Day of

September in the year Two Thousand and Seventeen.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk

Ulster County Legislature

Submitted to the County Executive this Approved by the County Executive this

20th Day of September, 2017. 26th Day of September, 2017.

|s| Victoria A. Fabella |s| Michael P. Hein

Victoria A. Fabella, Clerk Michael P. Hein, County Executive

Ulster County Legislature